Quotes About Passion

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.

live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

Sevdiginiz seyi bulmaniz gerek. Bu, sevgiliniz icin oldugu kadar isiniz icin de gecerlidir. Isiniz hayatinizin buyuk bir kismini dolduracak. Gercekten tatmin olmanin tek yolu, muhtesem bir is cikardiginizi dusunmektir. Ve muhtesem bir is cikarmanin tek yolu da yaptiginiz isi sevmektir... Daha azina razi olmayin.

But where men, to the force of appetite and passion, add that of opinion, and are wicked from principle, there will be more men wicked, and those more incurably and outrageously so.

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

There is only one universal passion fear.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Literature is a drug.

I know that show business is my life. It always was and it always will be. Nothing holds my interest like show business, nothing excites me more. There's nothing I think or talk about as much. I would hate to have to live without show business. When I'm working, I'm happy.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.